Does US higher education need fundamental reforms to survive and thrive?
Even as they deal with the short-term difficulties arising from the pandemic shock and the resultant decline in enrollment figures, many regional public universities and mid-tier private colleges will...
View ArticleStudent debt fears lower the bar for low income students
As the pandemic stretches on, President Biden has come under pressure from Democrats to cancel student debt in amounts larger than he has supported. They argue the move would narrow the racial wealth...
View ArticleThree ways James Kvaal can lead postsecondary education forward
President Biden recently announced his nomination of James Kvaal, an expert in postsecondary education policy, for one of the top posts in the U.S. Department of Education. As under secretary, Kvaal...
View ArticleResearch funding led to COVID breakthroughs — we need more to prevent the...
As Americans take vaccines and benefit from new therapeutics for COVID-19, they should take stock of the irreplaceable role that decades of research — much of it done at America’s leading research...
View ArticleA crucial part of COVID recovery is rebuilding paths toward higher education
Our nation’s postsecondary education system is headed into even tougher times as the COVID-19 crisis deals another blow: millions of students at risk of washing out of college because of reduced...
View ArticleCutting costs and cultivating free speech will put higher education on the...
As a 25-year affiliate professor of surgery, as well as a former member of a liberal arts college’s Board of Trustees, higher education has been a long-term concern of mine. The critical task of...
View ArticleCongress has the opportunity to help college students graduate on time with a...
For millions of Americans, higher education is the best pathway to the middle class and achieving a good standard of living. Whether a four-year college or university, a community college, or a...
View ArticleDoubling Pell Grants would be a modern GI Bill to boost the economy
When was the last time the American economy contracted as dramatically as it did last spring? In 1946. At the end of World War II, factories producing aircraft carriers and munitions shut down, just as...
View ArticleFormer Sallie Mae CEO calls the cost of higher education 'criminal'
A former CEO of the student loan lender Sallie Mae says the cost of tuition at U.S. universities is “criminal,” but acknowledges that he played a role in their rising, according to a forthcoming...
View ArticleInvesting in rural students and colleges essential to America's economic...
While the bipartisan infrastructure package is likely to include benefits for rural areas, such as funds to improve roads, bridges, and waterways, so far it does not include support for rural colleges,...
View ArticleNo more kicking the can down the road on free community college
Last week, the White House and Congress announced a reconciliation deal without President Biden’s proposal for free community college. The proposal, named America’s College Promise, would have...
View ArticleEducating the majority of US students means thinking beyond the Ivy Leagues
Based on all the attention it received in higher ed circles, Netflix’s series, “The Chair,” struck a nerve. But one serious issue it raised is barely being discussed: That it is based at a fictional...
View ArticleExpanding Pell Grants to for-profit colleges benefits institutions, not students
During the House debate over a provision to exclude for-profit colleges from the Pell Grant expansion in the Build Back Better Act, 13 Democratic members of Congress signed a letter opposing it on the...
View ArticleIs the US higher education bubble about to burst?
The decline in college enrollment since the pandemic began has raised alarm bells in some quarters. Doomsayers claim that declining enrollment implies a bleak future for America, one characterized by...
View ArticleEducation Department revamps College Scorecard
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Monday announced updates to the College Scorecard, a tool to help students weigh costs, future earnings and other factors when choosing institutions of higher...
View ArticleElite universities can create better pathways for two-year college transfers
Paying for two years of college is a policy that has moved to the center of the political agenda. It won’t be part of the Build Back Better bill, but the idea won’t go away either, because it’s such a...
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